Billy Wilder

In what we like to think of romantically as the Golden Age of Hollywood, films were corporate commodities manufactured by committee, much as an automobile is put together on an assembly line. There were exceptions, but even in the work of some of the most celebrated auteurs of the period, there were unsung collaborators who were essential to their films' success and have yet to receive the recognition they deserve.

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Billy Wilder, the director, writer and producer of both antic farce and serious drama who was nominated for 21 Academy Awards and won six, has died. He was 95.
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